INSPIRED INNOVATION - the Hoag Hospital Foundation

DONOR HIGHLIGHTS
Our Donors
Ensure the Future
Two years ago, Hoag Hospital Foundation began raising funds to build a $24 million endowment for the Mary & Dick Allen
Diabetes Center. The endowment ensures the long-term sustainability and success of the Allen Diabetes Center by providing a
permanent revenue source. Financial security through the endowment is especially important given historically low reimbursement
rates for diabetes care.
Thanks to the generosity of our donors, the endowment for the Allen Diabetes Center is up to $5 million and growing. To learn
more about how you can secure the future of the Allen Diabetes Center, please contact Kenya Beckmann at (949) 764-6384 or Kenya.
Beckmann@hoaghospital.org.
Note: See full profiles of donors highlighted on these pages by logging on to www.hoaghospitalfoundation.org.
Tom and Margaret Larkin
Tom and Margaret Larkin first became involved with Hoag in
2005. Now generous benefactors, theyÕ re soaring with enthusiasm
for the important programs being developed thereÑ including
diabetes. Ò When we moved down here I began talking with (trustee)
Ginny Ueberroth about becoming involved,Ó said Margaret, a Hoag
Hospital Foundation board member. Ò ThatÕ s how it all started.Ó Tom,
a longtime investment manager, suffers with adult-onset diabetes,
and the couple view the diabetes program as one that significantly
helps all who are affected.
What impresses Tom about the program is Kris V. Iyer, M.D.,
medical director for the Allen Diabetes Center. Tom has great faith
in Dr. Iyer, and the two share a common health issue: diabetes.
With diabetes, comprehensive care includes several components:
identifying people who are at risk, educating them about staying
healthy, and care. Ò The focus of the Allen Diabetes Center is on
education and care,Ó Margaret said. Ò The fact that they wonÕ t turn
anyone away regardless of ability to pay means a lot to us.Ó
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Melinda and Chuck Smith, George Hoag Family Foundation
The George Hoag Family Foundation has longstanding ties
to Hoag Hospital, as the founding benefactor, having provided
the funds needed to begin construction of the hospital in 1950.
The Foundation was established by George Hoag, Sr., an early
partner in the J.C. Penney Company, his wife, Grace, and their
son, George Hoag II, and has maintained a strong connection with
Hoag Hospital through the years.
The Hoag Family Foundation, overseen by President, Melinda
Hoag Smith and Executive Director, Chuck Smith, continues to
support Hoag Hospital. The Foundation earmarked $1 million of a
recent $16 million cancer-focused gift for the Mary & Dick Allen
Diabetes Center. The Smiths have also committed their time and
talent to the Allen Diabetes Center. Melinda serves on the Allen
Center Campaign Committee and Chuck serves on the Allen
Center Oversight Committee.
“Hoag Hospital continues to be a significant community asset,
and we believe in the hospitalÕ s vision to expand its world-class
health care services and become a regional center of referral
for Southern California and beyond,Ó says Chuck. Ò Our Board
is pleased to support the Mary & Dick Allen Diabetes Center
which we believe will advance new developments in the care and
management of diabetes.Ó
Ginny & Peter Ueberroth
Over the past 30 years, few names have become more familiar to
Americans than Ò Ueberroth.Ó
That same familiarity exists today at Hoag, where Virginia
Ò GinnyÓ Ueberroth and her husband, Peter, remain indelibly
intertwined. In fact, Peter, who chaired the 1984 Olympic Games
Committee in Los Angeles, and Ginny, a longtime hospital and
foundation director, recently gave $1 million through the Ginny and
Peter Ueberroth Family Foundation to fund the Ueberroth Program
for Women and Diabetes at the Mary & Dick Allen Diabetes Center.
Ò Healthy mothers make for healthy families,Ó Ginny said.
Ò Our goal is to help the Allen Diabetes Center reach further into
the community to ensure that all women have access to world-class
diabetes care.Ó
The coupleÕ s involvement with the Allen Diabetes Center began
when they became acquainted with Kris V. Iyer, M.D., medical
director of the center, and benefactor and then-Hospital Board
Chairman Dick Allen. Recalling her own grandmotherÕ s battle with
diabetes, GinnyÕ s participation seemed Ò a natural.Ó
The Ueberroth gift will enable expansion of the hospitalÕ s Sweet
Success program, designed to improve pregnancy outcomes for
women who develop diabetes during pregnancy and those who have
existing diabetes.
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